Video: So now you’ve overthrown the tyranny of reporters. Now what?
Watch me at IgniteCorvallis II talking about some ideas for local news and why I think the best time to be a journalist is right now.
Friday link roundup
Rescuing reporters, paywalls, NPR’s continued expansion and more. What I’m reading this week and why you should be, too.
Friday link roundup
Plenty of great thought-provoking stuff on the Web this week, from competing publications within one news org to what I think will shape up to be a big fight between journalism and college sports: Divide and conquer Jason Kristufek’s well-researched discussion of a pretty innovative idea: making print and online separate and even competitive arms [...]
A promise to update with new initiatives
I’ve been a little slow about posting here, for a variety of reasons (mostly that we bought a house that has required a significant amount of work — and so when I don’t have a paintbrush or wrench in my hand, we’re asleep). But after Carlos Virgen mentioned some new initiatives in Walla Walla, I [...]
Taking journalism lessons from revolutionaries
I just finished watching a fantastic video, produced for the 2009 Craft Brewers Conference. Take a minute and check it out: I Am A Craft Brewer on Vimeo. For the record, I live in Oregon (Beervana) and I love craft beer. But I’m also a journalism fanatic and I just couldn’t help but think about [...]
Continuing ed for journalists: training for a changed workforce
While reporters often write about workforce training and development in beats they cover, journalists have simply been left out in the cold when it comes to dealing with seismic shifts in their own workplace. As part of a couple of media companies over the years who have ditched newsroom training completely, I’ve had to do [...]
Excuses, excuses
Aaron Swartz piles on the praise for a This American Life show focused on the U.S. housing market meltdown. Swartz starts off by drawing lessons to fix the news: declining circulation, talk show shouters, aging readers. Here are three points he suggests we can learn from the episode: It believed in the intelligence of its [...]
What tools? Wrong question.
Got an e-mail this morning from the “online-news” listserve from Poynter, pointing to a new post talking about tools: Ask an experienced carpenter about the differences between a table saw and a jigsaw and you are sure to hear a detailed explanation about when to choose one over the other. Same thing if you ask [...]